bitterish


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bitterish

(ˈbɪtərɪʃ)
adj
(of taste) quite bitter
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Adj.1.bitterish - somewhat bitter
tasty - pleasing to the sense of taste; "a tasty morsel"
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The Nation's reviewer thought Roth's "hard hitting" Jewish pronouncements ("the voice of deathless Israel") perfectly suited to his praise of native American idealism: "Mr Roth does not say all this as greatly as Emerson or Whitman did, but he says it with a bitterish, Old Testament concreteness that will hold some ears a good while" ("M.